Posted on 06/24/2024 9:19:40 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Pepsi has become the latest American brand to face a backlash in the Muslim-majority Middle East as part of the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel. While there is no indication that Pepsi has taken an aggressive stance as a corporation to support Israel’s self-defense efforts, its Western identity has long attracted suspicion, and it has been, in the past, falsely identified as an “Israeli” company. It joins other internationally recognized American brands — such as McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, KFC, and Starbucks — in attracting pro-Hamas ire.
Lebanon 24 reported on Friday that the online campaign, which featured angry patrons calling for a boycott and at least one video that appeared to show a group of young men dumping soda into the sea in protest, translated into multiple towns banning truck shipments of Pepsi products in opposition to Israel’s ongoing self-defense operation against the Sunni jihadist terrorist organization Hamas. At least four towns blocked Pepsi shipments, the outlet claimed, in “solidarity with the people of Palestine.”
“Pepsi changed the bottle caps to the Israeli flag. I have never seen anything more despicable. But the worst part is that we continue to buy their products,” the Israeli outlet Ynet quoted a social media boycotter saying.
L’Orient-Le Jour, a French-language Lebanese newspaper, reported on Friday that the controversy appears to have begun on Wednesday when an attorney, Ziad Jaafil, filed a legal action against Pepsi because he claimed the logo on Pepsi bottle caps was too similar to the Israeli flag. The logo on the bottle caps is white and blue, with the word “Pepsi” written in blue in the middle on a white background flanked by blue stripes. That logo does not appear on the side of the bottle, which instead shows the classic red, white, and blue Pepsi logo.
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Stupid is as stupid does.........and this is definitely stupid...............
It took me a while.
Top and bottom blue stripes, middle stripe is white.
Says PEPSI, no star in the middle.
What if there is some brand of underwear with blue and white stripes?
Go around ripping off peoples clothes looking for it, I guess.
How dare Pepsi use blue and white on their bottles!
i did nazi this coming.
It would be somewhat amusing to see the blue & white cap logo photoshopped onto a fighter jet.
The only thing worse than going full retard is going full @$$h0!e. The whole world is going full @SSh0!e. God save us from ourselves.
“It would be somewhat amusing to see the blue & white cap logo photoshopped onto a fighter jet.”
There is a movie called “Mystery Men” where super hero’s have corporate sponsorships.
https://youtu.be/GldrAEUTeBM?si=cDwQMpvw9c7_U42S
I spent decades in the ME...this doesn’t surprise me.
Sounds like a waste of life...Were you a prisoner?
Why were you there?
There is an ongoing TV series called The Boys that has the same.
They must be smoking some strong dope over there.
Blue and white themed Pepsi goes a long way back to before the newer red white blue logo. Pepsi uses other color bottle caps too. Some think it’s to facilitate product rotation.
They will still wear a pair of Levi’s jeans not to mention use cellphones both of which involve Jews in their creation and development.
Money.
Made money...lots of money.
Decades of your life? I hope it was worth it, cause ya don’t get it back.
Interesting.
Pepsi has been the soft drink company that served the Arab nations, and Coke served Israel.
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